Author Archives: American Writers Museum

My America: Marie Arana

Each week, the My America blog series will introduce you to one of the writers featured [...]

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In Their Own Words: Tim O’Brien

In his classic book The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien writes, “Stories are for joining the [...]

In Their Own Words: Saeed Jones

Saeed Jones is an award-winning poet whose new memoir How We Fight for Our Lives is [...]

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Next Chapter: The Vampire’s Ball

The list of prominent American authors of Gothic vampire fiction is a long one. Anne [...]

Young Adult Reading Recommendations

As the days get shorter, the cold gets colder, and the leaves fall faster, take [...]

Let Them Inform Each Other

Keah Brown on Activism and the Writing Process By Keah Brown Writing is my first [...]

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AWM Staff Reads: August 2019

It should come as no surprise, but all of us here at the American Writers [...]

In Their Own Words: Steve Soboroff

Steve Soboroff is the President of the Los Angeles Police Commission and has long been [...]

Chicago Summer Books

By Christian Thorsberg The Chicago summer. She asks not for permission. She asks not for [...]

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